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  • INFORMATION

    Peace drums in Europe

    • Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
    • 03 July 2006

    Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Creating evolution

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 01 July 2006

    We are so used to the astonishing applications of genetics these days that a milestone has passed almost unnoticed.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Colourful ties

    • Jenny Zimmer
    • 15 June 2006

    Jenny Zimmer looks at Patrick McCaughey’s The Bright Shapes and the True Names.

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  • RELIGION

    Dan Brown’s favour to Christianity

    • Richard Leonard
    • 29 May 2006
    1 Comment

    A good read, a tedious film, a historical mess, and great publicity for the Catholic Church. Richard Leonard looks at The Da Vinci Code.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Arbitrarily to the gallows

    • Sandie Cornish
    • 29 May 2006

    Why did Australians rally behind Van Nguyen yet appear to care little about the Bali Nine? The differing responses of the community to particular cases appears to be driven more by emotion and social identification than principles, or practical reason.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Good morning, Vietnam | The new Spain | (In)security Kenyan style

    • Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
    • 14 May 2006

    Letters from Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The new philanthropy

    • Denis Tracey
    • 14 May 2006
    1 Comment

    What gives, Australia?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A century of giving

    • Juliette Hughes, Lucille Hughes
    • 11 May 2006

    The legacy of the Felton Bequest 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Brilliant buddies

    • Ralph Elliott
    • 27 April 2006

    Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The French in early Australia

    • Peter Pierce
    • 24 April 2006

    Peter Pierce reviews Colin Dyer’s The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839 and Bruce Poulson’s Recherche Bay: A History.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Tired of the injustice

    • Brian McCoy
    • 23 April 2006

    Fifty years ago Rosa Parks inspired African Americans by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, and her example is still inspiring Aboriginal people today

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